Steele, Missouri.
Typical home $115,508 (-8.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$237 (+64%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,277 -8%
- $125,785$115,508 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,785 +6%
- $108,722$115,508 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Steele$606
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 57 years.
Typical home values in Steele, MO fell 8.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Steele, Pemiscot County, Missouri
Steele is a city of 1,853 people in Pemiscot County. Half its households earn more than $54,600 a year and half less, against $40,089 across Pemiscot County. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Pemiscot County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pemiscot County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Steele is a small city in the Missouri Bootheel, in Pemiscot County. Household incomes here run above the county's, and about as many homes are lived in by their owners as are rented. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people have a short drive to work, with very few working from home. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with rain or melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and other services. Across Pemiscot County, some of the largest workplaces are Pemiscot County Memorial Hospital, Arcosa Marine Products, which builds cargo ships, and the Caruthersville 18 Schools district. Unemployment in the county has eased over the past year, though the number of jobs there has slipped a little.
Things to do. Campbell Archeological Site is a short drive away and is the closest place on the list. Farther out, a longer drive reaches Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and Herman Davis State Park, another protected area. The Eaker Site, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away.
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- 622households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 19 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Pemiscot County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pemiscot County had 4,695 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blytheville Municipal Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pemiscot County
- Arcosa Marine ProductsCargo ship building429
- Pemiscot County Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital138FTE
- Caruthersville 18 SchoolsSchool district105FTE
- Hayti R-II SchoolsSchool district89FTE
- Pemiscot Co. Spec. Sch. Dist SchoolsSchool district62FTE
- South Pemiscot Co. R-V SchoolsSchool district59FTE
- North Pemiscot Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district44FTE
- Pemiscot Progressive IndustriesSheltered workshops37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 688 people in all across the county; Steele has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Steele’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Pemiscot County.
Steele home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Steele$115,508
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Steele9
Zip codes with a Steele address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Steele — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.